Bro I didn't know you were a linguist??? Man I wanna do linguistics in college but where I'm going only has a minor for it :(
Oh yeah! I graduated in September with a BA in it. The Grand Plan™️ was that I was going to go into voice therapy, which is something I was/still am super interested in. I’ve had to go to voice therapy twice now as a client, and even though any sort of PT sucks, I was super into the therapy itself and found the whole thing really cool.
But as I was graduating I just realized that any time I had extra credits and could pick any course in my University to fill them, I always chose a music course. And looking at my grades and the amount of effort I put into music vs linguistics assignments, I realized that yeah I was wayyy more into audio engineering than linguistics. I still enjoy linguistics, but I enjoy it more as a side hobby now.
I think going for the minor is still worth it if you’re into it! You won’t be able to get that personalized, in-depth study of your favorite field of linguistics, but having the more broad overview of it is still cool.
Fair warning, linguistics is a science at its core and it’s vastly different from what people think it is. You don’t learn grammar or spelling (that’s English), you don’t learn foreign languages (that’s foreign language studies), you learn about language as a science. You learn about the vocal tract, every sound in every language, how different language families build sentence structures, the history of languages, how to observe and track language change, how to read formant graphs and build syntax trees, logic math in language, language data analysis, etc. It’s kinda like the chemistry of languages.
And if you find you LOVE the minor and want to do it as a job, don’t worry! Most linguistic-related fields require at least a Masters (well, unless you’re going into AI which the CS major with the LX minor would get you there). So you’ll have plenty of time to get the rest of those credits in after you finish your undergrad!